TIMERGARA, April 23: Provincial Minister for Revenue and States Mehmood Zeb Khan has expressed concern over the performance of the District Headquarters Hospital in Timergara and lack of treatment facilities in the hospital.

Speaking at a gathering at the Musarat Medical Complex here on Wednesday, he blamed the hospital administration and doctors for neglecting poor patients.

He claimed that doctors were busy promoting their private clinics and were not giving due attention to patients in the hospital. He said there was no operation theatre and medicine store in the hospital emergency and poor patients were forced to buy medicines for themselves.

“I visited the hospital on public complaints and was shocked to see its condition. Dirt was everywhere and the hospital needs attention,” the minister said.

He promised the people that he would bring the matter into the notice of higher authorities and would make efforts to make it a model hospital.

He said the previous government had left behind many problems that needed to be solved.

Giving example of the lone girls’ degree college in Timergara, he said there was only one lecturer in the college. Girls’ higher secondary schools, he said, had no subject specialists for five years. Posts of senior English teachers and science teachers in girls’ schools had also been lying vacant for years, he added.